
They were adored by millions for their on-screen personas - but behind the cameras, some familiar faces from Britain's best-loved soaps have found themselves on the wrong side of the law. From EastEnders to Home and Away, Brookside to Coronation Street, these former soap stars have lived out real-life dramas that even the most daring scriptwriters couldn't have dreamed up. Once fixtures of primetime television, they've swapped red carpets for courtrooms and celebrity fanfare for the cold reality of a prison cell.
Some became entangled in shocking scandals that destroyed their careers, while others were convicted of serious crimes that left fans reeling. Fraud, drugs, violence and even cold-blooded murder feature among the charges. These are the soap icons whose off-screen lives took a turn no viewer saw coming.


Driving at double the speed limit through Fulham, southwest London, Berouain smashed into her Uber before fleeing the country. He spent four years on the run in Dubai and the US before being extradited back to the UK to face justice.
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High on drugs and alcohol, Fitzpatrick threatened residents with an 18-inch blade, smashed windows, and told one woman her family "would be dead" if seen again on the estate.
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Police found 3kg of high-grade cannabis and £38,000 in cash at his Salford home, along with £17,000 laundered through his children's bank accounts.
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In 1966, aged 19, he shot and killed taxi driver Felix Reese during a botched robbery while serving in the British Army in Germany. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but released on parole after 10 years.
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